For its 2014-15 season, Broadway/San Diego’s slate of touring shows is looking a bit like an up-to-the-minute snapshot of Broadway itself. ■ Five of the six subscription-season shows set to land at downtown’s Civic Theatre beginning in September are on New York stages right now — an unusually high ratio of still-running productions. And four of them premiered within the past year. ■ Leading the just-announced lineup is “Kinky Boots,” the reigning Tony Award-winner as best musical. That boisterous show, with music by the pop icon Cyndi Lauper, will join fellow current Broadway entries “Motown the Musical,” “Pippin,” “Cinderella” and the La Jolla Playhouse-bred megahit “Jersey Boys” in the subscription offerings.

The sixth show is “Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage,” an Australian-spawned stage version of the 1987 movie.

Outside the regular season, Broadway/San Diego will present another encore of the unstoppable “Wicked,” dropping in for a nearly monthlong run in the fall; plus return engagements of Blue Man Group and the latest staging of “West Side Story.”

If there’s a thematic thread to the lineup, it might have to do with the perils and rewards involved with coming of age, says Joe Kobryner, a vice president of the Nederlander Organization (Broadway/San Diego’s parent company).

That motif arrives in the form of young people striving to break free of familial and societal limitations (“Kinky Boots,” “Pippin,” “Cinderella,” “Wicked,” “Dirty Dancing,” “West Side Story”), or finding fresh identity in music (“Motown,” “Jersey Boys”).

Kobryner also notes that four of the shows include Grammy Award-winning music, with “Kinky Boots” taking the award just a couple of weeks ago for best musical-theater album.

A closer look at what’s on the way:

• “Kinky Boots,” Sept. 23-28: Harvey Fierstein adapted this feel-good story from the 2005 movie of the same name, itself inspired by a true story. It focuses on a venerable British shoe factory inherited (reluctantly) by a young Londoner; he forms an unlikely partnership with a drag queen named Lola, and together they refashion the place as a maker of flamboyant footwear for guys who dress as gals.

Lauper’s score won one of the Broadway production’s six Tonys, and San Diegan Gregg Barnes also was nominated for his costumes.

• “Jersey Boys,” Oct. 21-26: Not only has the Des McAnuff-directed musical been a fixture on Broadway since 2005, but it now has productions all over the globe. This will be the first San Diego engagement in seven years, though, for the jukebox show about the drama behind real-life rockers The Four Seasons.

• “Wicked,” Nov. 12 to Dec. 7 (extra-season event): This will be the fourth visit to San Diego by the smash-hit prequel to the “Wizard of Oz” saga (the last was in 2012), which has nine productions running worldwide. Now the 11th-longest-running show in Broadway history (it premiered there in 2003), it continues to be a huge box-office draw. That kind of cred qualifies it as the sole show to get a four-week “sit” at the Civic.

• “West Side Story,” Jan. 2-4, 2015 (extra-season event): The modestly reconceived version of the classic 1957 musical includes some Spanish lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda of “In the Heights” renown. But the “Romeo and Juliet”-inspired love story still revolves around the matchless music of Leonard Bernstein, including such standards as “Somewhere,” “Tonight” and “America.”

• “Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage,” Jan. 6-11, 2015: The 1987 movie has become something of a kitschy monument to the dance-floor romance of Jennifer Grey and the late Patrick Swayze. The musical version, hitting town for the first time, adapts the original coming-of-age story (set in 1963) and includes such hit tunes as “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”

• “Cinderella,” May 5-10, 2015: Originally written for television by the legendary musical-theater team of Rodgers and Hammerstein (“The Sound of Music,” “Oklahoma!”) way back in the 1950s, this fairy-tale-based show made it to Broadway in 2013. It features a fresh book by Douglas Carter Beane, the comic mastermind behind the spoofy musical “Xanadu.”

• “Motown the Musical,” June 9-14, 2015: A dream show for fans of vintage R&B and soul, this musical is essentially a song-packed history of the Motown movement, written by the man at the center of it: Berry Gordy, who founded the record label that gives the show its name. (The Broadway production stars San Diegan Charl Brown as the singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson.)

• “Pippin,” Aug. 25-30, 2015: Way before Stephen Schwartz composed the music to “Wicked,” he teamed with Bob Fosse and Roger O. Hirson to create this quirky 1972 show about a young prince on a quest to find meaning and purpose. Director Diane Paulus’ circus-minded reconception of the piece won the Tony last year as best musical revival.

For more details and ticket information on all these shows, contact Broadway/San Diego at (619) 564-3000 or